Instapundit linked up this evaluation of recent events in Iraq:

The Iraqi resistance has peaked and is 'turning in on itself', according to recent intelligence reports from Baghdad received by Middle Eastern intelligence agencies.

The reports are the most optimistic for several months and reflect analysts' sense that recent elections in Iraq marked a 'quantum shift'. They will boost the government in the run-up to the expected general election in May.

This echoes similar assessments in the Post and other MSM outlets. As with the economic recovery, the evidence is simply becoming too obvious to ignore. Since the liberal media cannot allow such progress to be attributed to ideological rivals, we are seeing not so much reportage as a rather startling reversal of spin. As with the Regan recovery in the 1980s, reports of "continuing recession" and "ongoing violence" are being replaced not with acknowledgement of improvement, but instead with "the imminent end of the current recovery" and "in spite of positive developments, violence continues."

I also won't hesitate to point out the oft-predicted apocalyptic collapse of Iraq into civil war keeps not happening. As with all such escatological prophecies, instead of letting go of an obviously false premise, this will merely mean the deadline will be quietly pushed back by its adherents.

I don't care. They're still going to owe me a pizza.